Thursday, April 24, 2014

A Floor Show with Stripping and Bad Language

We’re finally moving on to refinishing the other half of the
upstairs floor! Once again, Tom rented a
sander from Home Depot to do the job. This
one looked like it was almost brand new, unlike the ones we used previously
which looked like Abe Lincoln might have used them to refinish his entire log
cabin. The power cord on this one was
pristine; not a hint of electrical tape on it from someone running it over with
the sander…until Tom got a hold of it.
Now there are two, that’s right, two pieces of electrical tape on the
cord. I won’t repeat some of the
language he used when he ran over it (twice) since this is a family-friendly blog, but it was not pretty. I was shocked
and highly offended.

Goodbye to a century of dirt!

There were some floorboards rotted from water damage, which Tom ingeniously patched with wood paneling he ripped out from the bathroom.

Tom's sign to keep people off the naked wood (insert joke here). Someone's been watching too much Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Game of Thrones